c# - Best way to convert string to decimal separator "." and "," insensitive way?

Question

Application deals with strings that represent decimals that come from different cultures. For example "1.1 and "1,1" is the same value.

I played with Decimal.TryParse flags combinations but couldn't achieve the result I want. "1,1" became "11" or "0" after all.

Is it possible to convert such strings to decimal in one line of code without pre-replacing "," char to "." or playing with NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator ?

How do you handle such situations?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can create a temporary CultureInfo object to use when you parse.

// get a temporary culture (clone) to modify
var ci = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.Clone() as CultureInfo;
ci.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator = ",";
decimal number = decimal.Parse("1,1", ci); // 1.1